Bangladesh’s interim govt has a habit of shifting blame: India

Rejecting the recent remarks made by Bangladesh’s Home Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury alleging that New Delhi was behind the unrest in the Khagrachari district of Chittagong Hill Tracts, India on Friday said the interim government of Bangladesh is unable to maintain the law and order situation in the country and has a habit of routinely trying to shift the blame elsewhere.

Addressing his weekly media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, while responding to a question on the remarks by Bangladesh’s Home Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, said, “We categorically reject these false and baseless allegations.”

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“The interim government of Bangladesh is unable to maintain the law and order situation in the country, and has a habit of routinely trying to shift the blame elsewhere. It would do well to introspect and conduct serious investigations into the actions of local extremists committing violence, arson, and land grabs against the minority communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts,” the MEA spokesperson said.

The violence against the indigenous people in Chittagong Hill Tracts has sparked concerns among world leaders about the condition of the backward and religious minorities in Bangladesh.

Several human rights bodies have urged the interim government to take strict action against the perpetrators after multiple indigenous people were killed and injured in Khagrachari following widespread arson, looting, and indiscriminate firing carried out by the Bangladeshi security forces.

The violence erupted on September 28, when people were demanding justice for a Marma schoolgirl who was brutally gang-raped.